Environmental Toxicants and Hazardous Contaminants: Recent Advances in Technologies for Sustainable Development

The special collection on Environmental Toxicants and Hazardous Contaminants: Recent Advances in Technologies for Sustainable Development is available in the ASCE Library at http://ascelibrary.org/page/jhtrbp/technologies_sustainable_development.

Environmental toxicants and hazardous contaminants are simply toxic substances in the environment and comprise a wide range of chemical or physical agents released into the environment that can contaminate the abiotic components of ecosystems, such as water, land, and air, thereby impacting the environment generally and producing adverse health effects in biotic communities of ecosystems, for example, animals, plants, and microbes. A wide variety of contaminants are present in the environment, and they can be broadly categorized as emerging contaminants, endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, mutagens, neurotoxins, and others, and they enter the environment from various point and nonpoint sources. The second part of the topic, recent advances in technologies for sustainable development, emphasizes on recent trends in technological advancements for operative control over the generation, treatment, recycling and reuse, recovery, and disposal of hazardous contaminants with the aim of protecting the environment from degradation and managing natural resources, thereby facilitating sustainable development. This special issue is devoted to recent researches pertaining to various prevalent or emerging contaminants in the environment and the corresponding remediation strategies by exploring current advanced technologies.

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